A Florida woman is expected to be charged with a crime on Tuesday after she allegedly sprayed bullets at singer Rihanna’s Beverly Hills home.
Ivana Ortiz, 35, of Orlando is expected to appear in Los Angeles City Court on Tuesday afternoon, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity because charges have not yet been formally filed.
Los Angeles police say Ortiz fired shots at a car parked outside Rihanna’s home in the Post Office neighborhood of Beverly Hills. No one was injured, but bullets hit the singer’s home, an Airstream parked in the area and a neighbor’s house, according to one of the sources.
At the time, the singer was at home with his partner, A$AP Rocky, and their three children, according to the official. Rihanna and Rocky were in the Airstream at the time of the shooting, the official said.
“They could have been beaten easily,” said the official.
Representatives for Rihanna and Rocky did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday morning.
During his weekly crime briefing Tuesday morning, Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said a witness saw the suspect driving up and down the street outside Rihanna’s home in a white Tesla before the incident. Police later released a description of the vehicle and a license plate reader captured the vehicle driving through Benedict Canyon, he said.
An LAPD helicopter began tracking the vehicle, which was eventually pulled over in Sherman Oaks near Ventura and Sepulveda boulevards, according to McDonnell. Ortiz was taken into custody without incident and did not speak to detectives. Police say they found an AR-style rifle, ammunition and a blond wig in his car. Additional ammunition, including a 30-round magazine, was found in the trunk of the car, the LAPD said.
A total of seven people were in the area at the time of the shooting, McDonnell said.
Ortiz is a licensed speech therapist with multiple prior arrests who had attacked Rihanna on social media in recent weeks. It was not clear who his lawyer is, and attempts to contact him were unsuccessful as he has been in LAPD custody since Sunday.
On February 17, Ortiz posted a meme on Facebook falsely claiming that Rihanna had AIDS. In another post six days later, she tagged Rihanna in a post asking the singer to “say something directly to me instead of sneaking around like you’re talking to me when I’m not around.”
Records show Ortiz has previous arrests in Florida for reckless driving, domestic violence and battery. It was not clear whether any charges were brought against them.
The police have not disclosed the reason for the attack. The case remains under investigation by the LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Unit.
LA County prosecutors will now find themselves on the same side of the courtroom as Rihanna and Rocky, a little over a year after the district attorney’s office tried to put the rapper behind bars. Rocky – whose legal name is Rakim Meyers – faced up to 20 years in prison as prosecutors took him to trial on assault charges for allegedly shooting a former friend in Hollywood in 2021.
Rocky denied all charges and jumped into the courthouse garage to hug Rihanna when she walked out on the front in February 2025.
